For film buffs

[anamnua]

The more the saga unwinds the more BHO comes over as a cross between the Colonel Kurtz character in Apocalypse Now and the lesser known character of Bill McKay in the Robert Redford film The Candidate.
Here's part of an online review of the Redford film:
Redford's major task in playing McKay is to track the almost imperceptible increments by which the candidate's external image is perfected while his internal conviction is undermined. When the picture begins, the political consultants eighty-six their candidate's sideburns and put him in a blue suit. They then go to work on the performance. In Redford's sharply calibrated portrayal of McKay's increasing sophistication, the candidate's speeches progress from awkward, inarticulate complaints to effectively impassioned calls for action. What we watch is a very good actor portraying very bad acting that gradually becomes very good. So good, in fact, that one of McKay's pals comments after a rally,****** "I saw something up there tonight. Believe me this is effective. You can do it, you can go all the way.You and I both know this is bullshit, but the point is they're believing it."******* (my asterisks).

Another quote from a McKay stump speech in this film:
…'the same old war. They can't any longer play off black against white, old against young, poor against less poor’

What does that remind you of?

[blm]

1. It reminds me that Clintons were set up to protect the Bushes by Jackson Stephens.

And that I am grateful that more Democrats are coming to realize that Clintons have been BAD NEWS for our party as they sided with protecting the secrecy and privilege of the Bushes and the powerful elite throughout the 90s.

Thanks for asking.

[housewolf]

2. It reminds me that movies are fictionalized & dramaticized

They are MOVIES.

[PurityOfEssence]

3. Written by Jeremy Larner, speechwriter for Eugene McCarthy and Julian Bond

Larner won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for this script, lest we forget, and he was a serious political operative during the 1968 campaign, writing many speeches for Eugene McCarthy and one truly pivotal one for Julian Bond.

To dismiss this as mere ignorant fiction--which you're doing--is ludicrous.

"The Best Man" is fiction, too, but it's also by an insider.